Colum Eastwood

Colum Eastwood (30 April 1983-) was the leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party of Ireland from 14 November 2015, succeeding Alasdair McDonnell.

Biography
Colum Eastwood was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland on 30 April 1983 to an Irish Catholic family. An alumnus of the University of Liverpool in England, Eastwood was elected to the Derry City Council in 2005 as a member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party. Eastwood was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2011, and he attended the funeral of an Irish National Liberation Army friend in 2012, carrying the coffin; he left the funeral shortly before a Real IRA member fired gunshots over the coffin. In 2015, he defeated Alasdair McDonnell to become the new SDLP leader.